Still kickin'

Wow, I haven't posted in over a year! Not for lack of wanting, I assure you, but MAN, I have found life as a working mom of 2 young boys (not to mention the housework, the wedding photography on the weekends, the garden, trying to exercise regularly, etc, etc) to be B-U-S-Y. WHEW! And everyday is a new adventure with kids, isn't it??

I just know, though, that soon enough they will be bigger, and will be involved in their own stuff, and (besides needing me to run them everywhere) they won't want anything to do with me. And then, as before they came into our lives, I will have lots of time to blog and photograph and exercise and garden and read.

And so, I am trying to live in the moment as much as possible, and just soak up every moment of joy that they bring.



Baby C is just not a baby anymore! He will be 2 in August, and he is busy and wild and tough and strong willed and BOSSY and about as different from his brother as two people could be! It never ceases to amaze me that two so very different people could come from the same set of genes. He is WORK. A LOT of work. But (most days!) I wouldn't change him for the world :) He is at that perfect, adorable age, which W and I must comment on at least once a day.



Logan is 4-1/2 and is my soft hearted little sweet heart. He started T-ball this summer, which I am helping to coach (which really just entails herding 20 4-6 year olds around for an hour and a half), and he will start pre-school in the fall (EEEEK!) He is addicted to playing the Wii, which shouldn't be surprising since his father and I have both enjoyed our share of video games over the years. I swore I was not going to let him play video games until he was older, but he is SO GOOD at them, and he enjoys them, and he still loves to be outside everyday too, so Meh...There are worse things in life.

It has been a good year. I have been growing in so many ways. It's good. I'm good. Life is good.

And oh so busy.

The mom cut update

So much to say, so little time!!

Life has been crazy; crazy and stressful and not fun, and although it could have been so much worse, I am SO GLAD to be able to say that it is not any of those things anymore. Well, not in the same bad way anyway. Still crazy and hectic, but that is just life ALWAYS.

The first three months of the year were spent in the downward spiral of the company I was working for going out of business. It was NOT FUN ONE BIT, and I never want to go through that again. And I am SO GLAD to be on the other side of that.

I am so very very lucky to have not even been unemployed for one day! On March 31st, I went to work for my old company, and at 2pm was told that the deal was done, to pack up my office and report to my new job on April 1st. It was a crazy, quick thing at the end, but I actually ended up being able to choose from multiple job offers. I feel so very fortunate in this economy to have done that. It was a very weird experience - being 'head hunted' didn't feel like I imagined it would, but there were lots of good things being said about me, TO me, by a lot of people in my industry, which was awesome but weird and hard to accept all at the same time. But it helped to me realize and ACCEPT the value of me and my abilities, and that is a good thing. Although, as I told my mom, it made me feel like I have this big reputation to live up to now. But, as she so wisely reminded me, what I have been doing all along is what earned me that rep, so as long as I continue to be myself and do what I have always done, I will be fine.

In more news, W is BACK TO WORK!!!! He started back to work in March (I think it was) with a new company, and he is loving it, and they love him! It is a very different atmosphere than he is used to, and he is thriving there. I think he is having a lot of major realization of his own worth, which is something I think he is meant to learn in this lifetime. He has always sold himself short, and this is such a good thing for him.

The boys are getting to be so big, and so fun, and so much work, LOL! Baby C is teaching us just how lucky we were with L; L was SOO EASY. And Baby C is SOO NOT. He is great and I love him, but where L was laid back and content and not whiney, Baby C is uptight and not very content and if I am being completely honest, kinda whiney!! But, of course, I wouldn't change him for the world, and all the good outweighs the bad.



Aren't they cute??

And here's me and my little mini me, L:



And Baby C, because he makes my heart melt...




And finally, since everything was feeling like a new start, I decided to do something drastic with my hair! It's been WAY too long, and I am glad I did it. It kinda feels like the 30 something Mommy cut, which in a way I am okay with, but it doesn't QUITE fit my personality, so my stylist friend and I are going to get together and tweek it a bit yet.

Here's the before (without makeup, LOL!)


and the after (with makeup)